That 290W...is that for the entire PC, or just the cpu?
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That 290W...is that for the entire PC, or just the cpu?
Haven't tried them yet. I generally avoid stress testers that are not cpu agnostic, I want to be able to harmonize my testing regiment across cpu's and platforms. The only reason I migrated from prime95 to LinX was because at the time LinX, despite being based on the Intel Burn Test application, was considered to be really good at also pushing AMD chips to their limits as well.What do you think of OCCP and AMD Overdrive as stability tests?
As for OCCP, I am assuming you mean OCCT? I do use that for GPU OC'ing because it does do error checking, something I feel is a necessary element of stress testing. In the past I have found it to be less rigorous compared to LinX, but if I have learned anything in this journey with my FX8350 it is that conclusions based on aged results are ripe for being over-turned when revisiting the problem and generating newer results.OCCP is an excellent CPU stress test tool.
what about using less memory on linx?
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What do you think of OCCP and AMD Overdrive as stability tests?
I mostly gave up trying to follow an extremely long thread at overclock.net and don't know if you might have seen it (vishera owners thread, 760+ pages), but there were discusions as to weather Prime95 is worth using on piledriver CPU's. Have you read anything on this?
I don't really remember now what the arguements were, both for and against Prime with PD, or if there was any eventual concensus on it's validity as a tool with PD.
I have just been using LinX and AMD's stabiity tester - if these are not rigorous enough it might be time to start using Prime again??
, the latest version of Prime is superior for PD.
Thanks, I'll check for the latest version. I havent updated in a while.
Just running an 8320 @ 4300 so I'm not really stressing it to much, at the same time though, this is my work machine so I do want it to be error free.
Power consumption is in line with what I found. Heat? If you were using the stock 8350 cooler that appears correct. It simply runs out of gas. Too much heat and not enough cooling to dissipate it. I went to the Corsair H100 with 4 fans to address this. Almost makes $$$ sense to use a custom water cooling system but have never dabbled in that plus at 4.6 Ghz with temps at most in the mid 50s when running stress tests I'm about maxed out.I found for my 8350 @ 4300 the difference between being LinX stable and being Prime95 ver27.9 largeFFT stable was startling.
I had to increase Vcore by 0.05V to be prime95 stable verus what it took to be LinX stable. Prime95 temperatures were 10°C higher (71C vs 61C), and power consumption was 355W versus 312W with LinX.
I've read and even posted on that forum. Some of the OCs are bordering on crazy. Moreover, you really need a custom water cooling system to safely run at extreme OCs (i.e. 5 Ghz).I mostly gave up trying to follow an extremely long thread at overclock.net and don't know if you might have seen it (vishera owners thread, 760+ pages), but there were discusions as to weather Prime95 is worth using on piledriver CPU's. Have you read anything on this?
I don't really remember now what the arguements were, both for and against Prime with PD, or if there was any eventual concensus on it's validity as a tool with PD.
I have just been using LinX and AMD's stabiity tester - if these are not rigorous enough it might be time to start using Prime again??
I had to increase Vcore by 0.05V to be prime95 stable verus what it took to be LinX stable. Prime95 temperatures were 10°C higher (71C vs 61C), and power consumption was 355W versus 312W with LinX.
You're still on the stock cooler, right?
You make an excellent point. It's easy to see that once the 8350 climbs past @4.35-4.4 Ghz the heat rise is too much for the stock cooler to handle. You can see why the turbo only went to 4.2 Ghz!Yeah, haven't changed anything yet. I'm paranoid that as soon as I "break the seal" and move away from stock config I will uncover yet another achilles heel in my testing regiment and my non-stock results will no longer be comparable to the original stock results.
So that is why I am spending what probably seems like an inordinate amount of time vetting my procedures while still stuck using the stock setup. I know once I drive this thing off the lot there is no going back and starting over again. So I want to do it right.
Of course I also have this nagging voice in my head that keeps saying "you've never done it right in the past, so why start now?" And I may just give in to that voice yet
What's the max OC you've gotten so far with the stock cooler?
Hello all,
New to the forums, and thought I would post my experiences overclocking an 8350, the key difference is what stress testing application I use as this greatly differs what overclock I am both capable of, and happy with. It is worth noting from the outset 4.8 seemed stable using AIDA (at a very respectable 1.46125) until I noticed during an encode using handbrake temps soared to 70 degrees, Prime and OCCT would require 1.5125v to achive 4.8 stable, but temps sky rocket at this, that said I must of had nearly 2 weeks usage stable before I noticed this, and experienced no crashes although perhaps the CPU was throttling?
I am using a Phanteks PH-TC14PE air cooler, with 3 140mm fans
Temperatures up to and including 4.6 are good in Prime95, and I am stable for 24 hours using 1.45v (27.9), temps hit a maximum of 57 on the core but typically sit around 54 which I like as it keeps the fan profile silent, jumping to 4.7 requires 1.49325v, and temps hit circa 62 on the core, and rarely dip below 58. Clearly 4.6 is my sweet spot.
For 4.6, I have adjusted a few other variables, firstly I found the same stability but lower temps (circa 5 degrees) by using a CPU/NB of 1.375, I also lowered the CPU VDDA down to 2.2 down from the default 2.5.
On my 990FX Sabertooth (R1) board, I have set CPU LLC at Ultra High, CPU/NB on high to counteract droop, and CPU current capacity & CPU/NB current capability at 130% with the intention of allowing the board to use 143A & stop overvolting.
Finally I have locked HT at 2600, CPU/NB at 2200 and DRAM at 1600 manually, disabled spread spectrum but left all power saving features active with the exception of CnQ which I have set to "disabled by CPU", although I may revert this back. I just wanted to ensure no throttling was taking place.
System power draw with monitors on standby under full load 362W (Prime95 blend).
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Its official voltage at 4 GHz is 1.3375v and the motherboard supplies in reality 1.24v when the ASUS EPU energy economy mode is on because of the usual vDrop. For our tests we limited this vDrop by turning the EPU off and putting the CPU Load Line Calibration on High and then Extreme and CPU Current Capability at 130%. We also turned the HPC Mode on in the ASUS bios so as to cater for any drop in clock linked to excessive energy consumption.[/FONT]
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Wow, coming to the defense of AMD with a two year old necro.
Wow, coming to the defense of AMD with a two year old necro.
Really.. No wonder he has 5000+ posts running around like some Caped Crusader for AMD.. So pas·sé..